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639 The artist, Soga Shohaku, is considered one of the great eccentrics and innovators
of the Edo period. A pair of six-panel screens by the same artist, depicting a similar
SOGA SHOHAKU (1730-1781) idealized Chinese landscape, were sold at Christie’s New York in The Collection of
Chinese landscape Robert Hatfeld Ellsworth Part I: Masterworks, 17 March 2015, lot 57. For more on
Shohaku, with special attention to his antisocial behavior, see Miyeko Murase, “The
Signed Shohaku ga, sealed Jyoki and Dasokuken Shohaku Rebel Painter Soga Shohaku in the Powers Collection,” Unrivalled Splendor: The
Four sliding doors (fusuma); ink on paper Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art, Houston, 2013.
69¿ x 36Ω in. (175.6 x 92.7 cm.) each

$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE

The Manno Art Museum, Osaka.
The Marie Theresa L. Virata (1923-2015) Collection.

LITERATURE

Selected Masterpieces of the Manno Collection, Japan, 1988, pl. 32.

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